I Won a Prize of 100 Million at the Beginning, and I Became a Capital Boss

Chapter 87 The Hugo Award has raised Pentium's valuation by at least 7 million!
The Spokane Convention Center is located downtown, on the Spokane River, next to the 100-acre Riverfront Park.

Old and beautiful cities have one thing in common: fewer people, beautiful scenery, and good air. Although autumn has not yet entered, the green space next to the Spokane Conference has already fallen leaves.

The awards ceremony was in the evening, Liu Cixin, Liu Yukun and Zheng Wentong strolled in the park, Zhao Hailong followed behind.

"It is rare to see such a large-scale green park in China. The Century Park in Puhai occupies a very luxurious area." Breathing the fresh air of nature, Da Liu is in a good mood.

"One square kilometer, assuming that half of the area is used to build houses, and assuming a floor area ratio of 2, a house of 100 million square meters can be built, and the price is 5, which is 500 billion. Urban development requires greening, unless the property tax pilot is expanded and changed. Land Fiscal Policy."

Liu Yukun commented, "Mr. Zheng is really a cold businessman thinking."

Zheng Wentong retorted, "Yukun, you are wrong, I am a realistic optimist. I have always believed that the future of Ramp Capital is a sea of ​​stars."

"If it hadn't been for Liu to introduce me, I wouldn't know that there is an Internet company under Mr. Zheng's name. Mr. Zheng is also a code farmer, and there are a lot of Chinese software engineers in California."

"Fang Zhouzi is cracking down on fake Chai Jing in China, and someone has already forwarded Wei Toutiao's article to Facebook and Twitter."

"Although Fang Zhouzi is a personal act, if Wei Toutiao wants to go public in the United States at that time, the Ford Foundation may be behind it."

"All the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit. If I didn't see Da Liu coming to the scene to receive the award, which would help the business of Galloping Horse, I wouldn't want to go there myself."

Zheng Wentong said it very bluntly. Liu Cixin may not be used to this kind of businessman's thinking, but Liu Yukun can understand it very well. After all, he is still a lawyer.

"No matter where you do business, no one will have trouble with money. Even if I scold the CEO of Goldman Sachs today, as long as Weike Xinke can raise more than one billion US dollars in the IPO on Nasdaq, Goldman Sachs will still have to deal with our company. Greet you with a smile."

Brokers’ IPO underwriting income can earn 3%-5% of the fundraising amount5. A $10 billion IPO can also bring a huge income of 5000 million U.S. dollars. No brokerage firm will miss such a big case.

"Boss Zheng is so optimistic about the development of Weike Xinke? If there is a chance, I would like to buy some stocks." Liu Yukun joked with Zheng Wentong.

"Yukun, you are a North American lawyer. If Weike Xinke wants to complete a cross-border acquisition, I will definitely find a lawyer who is familiar with local business to help."

Zheng Wentong plans to complete the acquisition of musical.ly in the second half of 16 and change its name to TikTok. This short video application will become popular all over the world, and the divestiture of this business is worth 1000 billion US dollars.

The North American office of Slope Capital has been set up and is located in Los Angeles. After the award ceremony is over, Zheng Wentong wants to stop by to check the progress of the work.

Although it is only doing game publishing and promotion at present, it is also necessary to start recruiting game production talents. Zheng Wentong wants to make the game "PUBG Mobile" before the blue hole.

After 20 years, high-level executives have proposed a dual cycle of domestic and foreign economies, encouraging large Internet companies to go overseas and increasing overseas revenue.

Internet giants with a market capitalization of several trillion are still engaged in the business of robbing food. It may not be too ugly to eat. The good days of giants who rely on monopolizing the market to obtain huge income will not last long.

It was still early before the awards ceremony, and Zheng Wentong invited Liu Cixin and Liu Yukun to a Chinese restaurant near Spokane for dinner.

The owner of this restaurant is the third generation of Chinese, and he can no longer speak Chinese. The food has also been improved to suit Laomei's taste. Kung Pao chicken is a bit sweet, but fortunately, the taste is not bad.

After the meal, everyone returned to the awards ceremony. The jury of the organizing committee congratulated Liu Cixin and said that they had prepared a surprise for him, and that he was fully worthy of this honor.

Liu Yukun was guessing, "I don't know what the judges said about the surprise?"

Zheng Wentong knew it in his heart.

Liu Cixin thinks it is unlikely, "If such a situation really happens, their organizing committee will definitely say in advance, and I have to report to our factory's foreign affairs office."

In the evening, the suspense was revealed, and the conference site video was connected to the international space. Astronaut Karen Lindgren announced the best novel of the 350rd Hugo Awards from 73 kilometers away in space:
"Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin."

The Spokane Convention Center erupted with thunderous applause.Zhang Ran, a cutting-edge science fiction writer from China, was present at the scene, and many Chinese were called crazy, feeling particularly excited.

Liu Cixin was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and black-rimmed glasses.This middle-aged man who looked like a physics teacher was a little emotional. He hugged Liu Yukun first, and then Zheng Wentong.

"Astronauts present awards to you from the International Space Station, there are so many people! Well, you can go up to receive the awards!" Zheng Wentong patted Liu on the back, signaling him to go on stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. It is a great honor for me to be nominated for the Hugo Award. I have read many Hugo Award-winning works, many of which have been translated and published in China, and some of them I have to read in English."

"For me, the Hugo Awards seem very far away. I never thought I would have an intersection with it. Between the two distant cultural planets of Chinese and English, there is a spaceship that connects them together, and that is " Liu Yukun, translator of The Three-Body Problem.”

"He has a good understanding of Eastern and Western cultures, and the final translation is almost perfect. As a science fiction writer who does not write in English, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to him."

"I would also like to thank Huaxia Educational Books Import and Export Corporation and Tor Books. Without their cooperation, "The Three-Body Problem" would not have been able to meet American readers."

"Of course, I would also like to thank Mr. Zheng Wentong. Without his help, I would not have come to the awards ceremony. By the way, he is also my boss now."

Liu Cixin looked at Zheng Wentong, and Zheng Wentong responded with a smile. This was also the first time he appeared in the mainstream media of Laomei.

"Finally, I would like to thank the readers of this book for sharing my Alien Universe. This book describes a terrifying universe. There will be many difficulties in the process of exploring towards endless space, but human beings are united. Deal with this disaster."

"Whether in the world of science fiction or in reality, we human beings live in the same global village, different countries, different races, different genders, we must be more united, and we must work together to deal with hunger, disease, natural disasters, and future alien invasions .”

Liu Cixin's words made the audience laugh again, and he began to make a concluding speech, "On the magnificent sci-fi starship, I am just a small soldier, and I have made insignificant contributions. Thank you everyone."

Liu Cixin's humility in the Eastern style at the end was recognized by everyone, so there was another burst of endless applause at the venue.

Liu Cixin walked down the stage holding the Hugo Award trophy. Zheng Wentong and Liu Cixin shook hands to express their congratulations, "Congratulations, congratulations, the words thanking me were just a temporary thought, right? I don't think anyone asked you to help me advertise. "

"I really want to thank you. If it wasn't for Mr. Zheng, you kept persuading me, I would have missed this unforgettable awards ceremony."

"As science fiction authors, we have a natural admiration for astronauts, the people who bring science fiction to life."

Liu Yukun also lamented the carefulness of the organizing committee, "What's even more rare is that Karen Lindgren is not only an astronaut, but also an outstanding science fiction writer. This is how heroes cherish heroes."

The Hugo trophy is a hexagonal brass base that also contains the wrecked metal of a Canadian exploration rocket.

On it is a vertical black rocket standing in the middle of a maple leaf made of brass, with the winner's nameplate and the 73rd Hugo Award on the base.

Zheng Wentong put his arms around Liu Cixin and Liu Yukun, and greeted Zhao Hailong, "Hailong, take a photo for the three of us." At the same time, he took a photo with Liu Cixin and Liu Yukun at the Hugo Awards Ceremony. This photo is also quite commemorative.

Big Liu took a picture with the trophy first, and then handed the trophy to Liu Yukun to take a picture, because the Hugo Award must be written in English, and Liu Yukun is the first Asian to win the Hugo Award for Novel. The significance of the novel competition is no less than that of Liu Xiang winning the Olympic Games.

After taking the photo, many Chinese came to congratulate Liu Cixin, and Zhang Ran came to take a photo with Liu Cixin. They had already met at the Galaxy Awards in Shudu, China.

"Congratulations to Liu, the official coronation. At first I thought you would not come to the scene. The award of "Three-Body Problem" proves that China's top science fiction is of world-class standard."

Liu Cixin logged into Weitoutiao on his mobile phone, and then uploaded a photo of the Spokane Convention Center, the Hugo Award trophy, and the three of him, Liu Yukun, and Zheng Wentong.

"Thank you to the Hugo Award Organizing Committee and Yukun. I am very happy to win the Hugo Award. I hope to write better works to give back to readers!"

When Liu Cixin's Wei Toutiao was successfully published, a wave of enthusiasm was formed in an instant. Many users thought that they had read it wrong. The big Liu who was born in the middle actually started playing social media?

Although Liu Cixin is a certified big V account, sci-fi fans have always thought that this is an official agent account, not his own, but the uploaded content is undoubtedly Liu himself.

Netizens swiped their messages under Liu Cixin's Weibo headlines, "Big Liu is awesome, three-body V5!"

Domestic news media have already received news that CCTV reporters have contacted Liu Cixin and requested a telephone interview with him.

Zheng Wentong contacted Wang Zhiliang first, "The link to the shopping cart of the novel "Three-Body Problem" is available, let's collect the sales data."

Zheng Wentong urgently contacted Zhong Lifang, "Liu's "Three-Body Problem" has already won the Hugo Award, and now we can let it out to the outside world, saying that Liu Cixin participated in the screenwriting of "Crazy Alien". In the film, spaceships, aliens and other science fiction designs It must have come from the hands of Da Liu."

Zhong Lifang really admired Zheng Wentong. She won the award through Liu Cixin, and then she was interviewed by the media in Yanjing, and then talked about the production of "Crazy Alien".

She began to say that it is not easy to shoot sci-fi movies, and each special effects shot costs tens of millions. Here, she mainly thanks Liu Cixin for participating in the screenwriting work of the film.

She once again congratulated her on winning the 73rd Hugo Award, and she is looking forward to bringing Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" to the big screen. Perhaps the era of science fiction movies in China has begun.
When Zhong Lifang revealed that almost all the copyrights of Liu Cixin's science fiction novels are in the hands of the parent company of Galloping Pony, slope capital, the market is further optimistic about the valuation of Galloping Pony, believing that the current valuation of Galloping Pony has exceeded 32 billion!
After Zhang Panpan and Song Chunli learned that Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" had won the award, the couple regretted it very much, and felt that Zheng Wentong took a big advantage.

Song Chunli blamed Zhang Panpan, "Didn't you say that Liu Cixin has no hope of winning this time?"

Zhang Panpan was upset, "How do I know, after all, this year's Nebula Award was rejected, and Liu Cixin didn't even have confidence in himself, so he asked the organizing committee to find out if he had to be there."

"The organizing committee replied that although there was no precedent before, it doesn't matter if you don't go. Liu Cixin thought he had no hope of winning the award. Moreover, he was added after others gave up the nomination. God knows why the judges gave him the award!"

Song Chunli gritted her teeth, "1500 million! I bought all the copyrights of "Three-Body Problem" for 1500 million. Mr. Zheng made a good plan!"

"We have no way out. Others are rich and powerful, so they must have obtained insider information in advance. Otherwise, why did he rush to buy the copyright of "Three-Body Problem"? "Sell him the copyright!"

"As long as we persist for half a month, we will be able to sell 5000 million copies! You have to make that 1000 million-cost sci-fi online movie no matter what, otherwise you will never hope to shoot "Three-Body Problem" in your life! "

Song Chunli looked at the photo of Zheng Wentong hugging Liu Cixin and Liu Yukun, and felt that the smiles of the three were particularly dazzling. She completely forgot that she had cheated Liu Cixin of the copyright of "Three-Body Problem" for only 10 yuan.

(End of this chapter)